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Rolling out: Projects become folders 📂 ✨

  • August 3, 2026
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Tom Reem
Figmate

Hi Figma Forum! We’re rolling out some changes that will make organizing team files more flexible and intuitive — and we want to hear from you. 👈🏻

A Figma workspace organized with nested folders.

As more work happens in Figma, files can get harder to find. In the coming weeks, we’ll introduce folders, so you can structure files to mirror the ways your teams work.

Here’s what’s changing:

  • Projects become folders. All files in Teams will live in folders. Any previous reference to Projects in the UI will be renamed to Folders.
  • Subfolders and colors. Nest folders and assign folders colors to create hierarchy.
  • Simpler sharing. Subfolders inherit access from the folder above it by default, or you can limit access to specific people.

What’s not changing:

  • Workspaces and teams — these structures will stay exactly the same as before.
  • Who can access folders — the same people who had access to the project before have access to the folder now. This includes Connected projects, now called Connected folders.
  • Creating, moving, and sharing folders — the same ways and places apply as they did with projects.
  • API keys — these will continue to work as before.

 👉🏻 Have questions or feedback?

Drop your questions in the comments below during the rollout — ​@Jillian_Latimer and ​@Ethan Adams from the product team will be here in this thread to answer them on Monday, August 17, 2026 between the hour of noon and 1pm PDT / 3pm and 4pm EDT.

Not sure what to ask? Here are a few ideas:

  • Will this impact my permissions?
  • Does this mean folder sharing is different?
  • How many folders are included with my plan?

Feel free to add your comments ahead of time! We'll follow up on Monday, August 17 and address as many questions as possible. See you then!

Learn more about what’s changing specific to your plan type here: Updates to Figma’s file management.

Please note that off-topic posts will be moderated or to another thread, and keep the Figma Forum Guidelines in mind as you post.

9 replies

Kerry_Johnson

Thank you!


Pencilixel
  • New Member
  • August 4, 2026

It is amazing! 😍


James Vince
  • New Participant
  • August 4, 2026

Amazing sir😍


Ara_Garabedian

@Tom Reem 

How about folders for page organisation in Figma design so I don’t have to do silly stuff like this👇

 

 


Margot_Gabel
  • Active Member
  • August 6, 2026

Is the infamous ‘Sort by’ dropdown bug fixed with this rollout?

 


Tim_hfg1
  • New Member
  • August 6, 2026

Hi Figma team,

First of all, I really appreciate the introduction of nested folders. This has been a feature many of us have been waiting for, and it makes organizing larger workspaces much easier.

One thing that currently feels inconsistent is the visual representation of Parent Folders (the folders that replaced the previous Projects level).

Compared to the previous Project view, Parent Folders are now very small and do not provide any visual preview. This makes it harder to quickly distinguish between different areas of a workspace, especially in larger teams with many brands, products, or clients.

A solution could be to introduce Folder Covers / Previews, similar to how tools like Notion handle databases and pages. For example:

  • Allow users to choose a cover image for a Parent Folder
  • Use an automatic preview from a selected file inside the folder
  • Provide a larger card-style view option for Parent Folders

Once you are inside a Parent Folder, I think the current structure works very well. At that point, users already know where they are and mainly need a way to group and organize individual files. The bigger challenge is the first-level overview and quickly identifying the right area of a workspace.

A more visual approach for Parent Folders would make large workspaces feel much easier to navigate and would improve the experience for teams managing many projects or brands.

Thanks for considering this!


Angel Martin
  • New Member
  • August 10, 2026

I know that in the grand scheme of things, this isn’t a big deal, but for a company that organises its’ folders in Figma using a numbered system, it’s driving me utterly mad.

Projects and teams in Figma have filters available on them for ordering by either last modified or alphabetical, with the default being last modified. Our folder structure is labelled numerically - ‘01. Exploration’, ‘02. In Design’, ‘03. In Development’ - so last modified isn’t really any good for us.

I change the sort to be alphabetical, but every time I leave a folder and come back, it resets itself to last modified and I have to do it all over again. I’m back and forth in folders a lot, and having to do this over and over... 

Please please PLEASE is it possible for Figma to remember the setting you put on something?

[Moderator note: This post was merged from Figma folder filters into Rolling out: Projects become folders on 10-Aug-2026.]


Irine
  • New Member
  • August 10, 2026

Please bring back the preview cards with files inside each folder. I recognized folders more quickly via these preview thumbnails

But overall that’s a nice idea


Apolline
  • Active Member
  • August 11, 2026

The differences between the different folders colors are barely noticeable 

Can you tell which one of these is purple at first glance ?